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D’Estaing demands new challenge

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

7/21/04, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:31 PM CET

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has never been one to pass up the main chance: after all, he’s been a minister, French president, leader of a political group in European Parliament and, latterly the chairman of the Convention and thus ‘father of the EU constitution’.

But it’s still not enough: at the latest gathering of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Budapest, at which he delivered a widely acclaimed speech, he told one of the party’s leaders: “You have to think of a function for me in the EPP”!

Giscard is insatiable. Even being an ‘immortal’ is not enough. He entered the famous Académie Française, last year, after he made it plain to the other immortal members: “I am a candidate, but only under the condition that I am elected unanimously…”

There is something splendidly parochial about the state-aid investigation launched last week by the European Commission’s competition department into JC Decaux, a French advertising company. The question …